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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- hidden depth
Meaning
Persephone holds Hades’ gates beneath the earth’s hidden depths; nymphs and Erinyes have homes in recesses. The noun gives a concealed location without specifying that every inhabitant is a dead human. In the nymphs’ line the depths are water-pathed, an important local distinction from a generalized underworld setting.
Places to read
- Hymn XXIX · Line 4Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
κεύθεα; κεύθεσιν
Occurrence inventory
3 in total. XXIX.4; LI.2; LXIX.3